Martha Marie takes the reader into the adult lives of ten siblings, an environment she knows well from her own childhood. She explores their relationships with humour and sympathy, and her affection for her native city, Dublin, comes through in all she writes.

The book is about relationships between ten siblings who were born and brought up in Dublin by a selfish, greedy and manipulative mother. The eldest girl was eighteen when her youngest sibling was born. The book opens in late spring in 1969. Sheila Malone's four eldest daughters are coming home to Dublin for a party. The family home is in a Corporation estate on the North east of Dublin city.

We’re tired of all the old mother-in-law jokes! We are fighting back. This is a 2-book set of true stories and comments from daughters-in-law to prove that we are not the ones to blame all the time. Some of us are stuck with the bottom of the barrel and they are making our lives, our son's lives and our grandchildren’s lives miserable.

This book is a second of two books about horrible and idiotic daughters-in-law. These are not jokes, these unfortunately are true stories about terrible mothering and stupid things they say and do. We are sick and tired of hearing jokes about Mothers-in-law and this book shows that the reason many of us may be disillusioned with our daughter-in-law is totally substantiated.